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I was amazed that the Biden economy adjusted so well after the upheaval of the pandemic. And I can tell you without a doubt, if a Republican had done the same that POTUS would have a 700-foot gold statue by now.

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Trump transferred from Fordham to the University of Pennsylvania, so 2 of his schools are there. Don Jr. and Ivanka went to Penn, Eric went to Georgetown, and Barron goes to NYU.

And at least some moderate level of naked greed.

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His numbers were just as bad in the first term, only this time without a global pandemic.

Trump officials interfered with the 2020 census beyond cutting it short, email shows The email details the scope of the former administration's attempts to tamper with the count, including pressuring the Census Bureau to alter plans for protecting privacy and producing accurate data.

www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1...

Yikes — Epstein showing appreciation for @GovBillLee pal Betsy Devos making it harder to report sexual abuse on campuses

Quite the chart

It's all of them

Brazilian Portuguese is like music. When it's spoken by the Portuguese it's like someone is doing some construction work in the apartment next door.

AI will repeat this as fact

A two-panel Little Bubbie Child comic. Top panel is the little bubbie child asking, "Dad, hwat was it like a livin' in the 90s?" Bottom panel is dad responding, "Sometimes you'd open a can a peanuts and they'd come snakes outta there."

I interviewed for a job before inauguration day and moved to DC a two weeks after Reagan took office. It was a radical transformation.

Mmmm.... everyone's going to forget how to play actual musical instruments, but we'll all know-- across cultures and continents-- how to spin a pickup truck in a cement divot?

Every day for 10 years these MFers have been telling us how surprised they are about the latest reprehensible thing Trump did that day. They each own it all because they all enable it and cheer it on.

What should happen to the people that rooted for the US to lose the 2016 Olympic bid because it would be in Chicago?

And the GOP openly rooted against America getting the 2016 Olympics because it would have been in Chicago.

2028 PASSENGER: Take me to the airport.

2028 DRIVER: Which one?

2028 PASSENGER: Trump.

2028 DRIVER: But they’re all named Trump!

The entire Republican party rooted against America getting the 2016 Summer Olympics because the bilding city was Chicago, where Barack Obama was from.

They voted for it. Big signs held by hundreds at the GOP convention promising mass deportation. They voted for a convicted felon to go ahead with his promised Mass Deportations.

Tim Scott @votetimscott Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.

you know its bad when even tim scott admits its racist

Democrats erupt in fury over Trump demanding Schumer help rename Dulles, Penn Station "There is no point in yielding to his ever-changing ransom demands," said one Democrat.

Are Democrats upset about the naming? Or are they upset about the unconstitutional extortion?

www.axios.com/2026/02/06/t...

Sir, this is a prayer breakfast....

Serwer has done really great writing on this topic.

In the mid 90s, you could still see where the tracks were cut off from the blue line.

Blanche: It's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.

Stolen valor.